Who is going to Comic-Con International? I will be cos-playing as thermal bandage LeeLoo for your entertainment. (Farkette, here.) Where should we meet up beforehand so we can show up in a group of awesomeness +~14.5 billion?

Date/Time:

July 20, 2013 - 07:00 PM (local time)

Party Info:

WHERE:San Diego Convention Center during Comic Con and THEN:https://www.facebook.com/​pages/Neighborhood/130522​462017This is where we are meeting up. It is an awesome Gastropub.Address: 777 G Street , San Diego, California 92101Phone: (619) 446-0002

WHEN: July 20, 2013 7pm. SHARP. Otherwise you will NOT get spanked.

WHO: Everyone awesome.

WHAT: ??? PARTAY! FARK...

WHY: Because...we can typing and attempt we can talking in person. Mostly drinking.

Additional Info:"Comic-Con International: San Diego is a nonprofit educational corporation dedicated to creating awareness of, and appreciation for, comics and related popular artforms, primarily through the presentation of conventions and events that celebrate the historic and ongoing contribution of comics to art and culture."

VivianVivisect:ILoveBurritos: I took two weeks off for this, but I was only able to acquire Thursday and Sunday tickets. It seems like there is enough off-site crap going on that there might still be something to do and make it worth to go downtown on the other days. What am I going to do for the rest of those 2 weeks? There's only so many times I can go see Pacific Rim...Also, I'll be the fat, pale white guy, might be dressed as this guy: http://www.tchikitahman.com/

I look forward to meeting you. Don't be shy. I like hugs :) I hope your stay in San Diego will be awesome!!

magicgoo:Wait, wait. Which chick are we supposed to be paying more attention to? Skyday or Vivisection?

True "nerd" females are so very rare. A geek chick wouldn't dress as slutty Hermione or bandaged Leeloo or slave Leia. Way too overdone. Way too boring. Way too mainstream. Way too easy. Let's see, for once in our lives, a chick dress as the Baron Harkonnen or Jabba or Ben Grimm or Eowyn in full armor or Robocop or Thrall or a Xenomorph or flight-suit Ripley or Ripley in a power loader built by said chick. Let's see a female not rely on her tits for nerds' attention, but on her knowledge of all things games/sci-fi/comics/fantasy/etc. That'd be effing sexy as eff: To be out-nerded by a chick who is a true fan of something that her boyfriend didn't tell her to like; to have a quality costume so amazing, it'd not be the amount of skin showing that draws attention to it, but the very intricacies in design that only a real fan could passionately create.

Screw it. Never mind. Those girls don't exist. Onward with the boring attention whore-off between two socialites who can't come up with anything more creative than what has been done a billion times.

youmustbenewhere.jpg, though since you've been here since 2010 and you're so "social", your question must be in jest.

OK, I'll bite. GD was the AW of all AWs, aka as LBJ in earlier times. You should have studied her more closely. Masterful in her manipulations, but unfortunately sometimes coming across as natural as your eye and hair color.

Wow some people here are just... mean. And I'm surprised that this still surprises me on Fark.

So what would be even cooler than thermal bandage LeeLoo - and I adore LeeLoo, and I adore the Fifth Element more than I can even say - would be to go as Zorg. Or Ruby Rhod.

I know, missing the point, I'm sure you'll look awesome and hot in the thermal bandages. Still... Zorg. With that little clear hat and the weird swoop of hair and the creepy fleshy pet with the Bambi eyes. Awesome.

tentaculistic:Wow some people here are just... mean. And I'm surprised that this still surprises me on Fark.

So what would be even cooler than thermal bandage LeeLoo - and I adore LeeLoo, and I adore the Fifth Element more than I can even say - would be to go as Zorg. Or Ruby Rhod.

I know, missing the point, I'm sure you'll look awesome and hot in the thermal bandages. Still... Zorg. With that little clear hat and the weird swoop of hair and the creepy fleshy pet with the Bambi eyes. Awesome.

GD doesn't come around much anymore. There was a bit of a shakedown and some of the old AWs were asked to leave. She vanished around the same time as He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named and the impactful one. It happened just before the amateur trolls started invading en masse. I suspect that some of the old pros are still around, under new names,but it's really not the same.

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Party threads (unlike normal threads) are automatically bumped and re-greened periodically, and with increasing frequency as the party approaches. Also, if there is a change to the info (in this case, the date corrected, and the location added), the thread will be re-greened.

GD doesn't come around much anymore. There was a bit of a shakedown and some of the old AWs were asked to leave. She vanished around the same time as He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named and the impactful one. It happened just before the amateur trolls started invading en masse. I suspect that some of the old pros are still around, under new names,but it's really not the same.

I'm friends with GD on Facebook she was phasing out when I got here, so no, I didn't have the complete pleasure of being around when she was here.

VivianVivisect:tentaculistic: Wow some people here are just... mean. And I'm surprised that this still surprises me on Fark.

So what would be even cooler than thermal bandage LeeLoo - and I adore LeeLoo, and I adore the Fifth Element more than I can even say - would be to go as Zorg. Or Ruby Rhod.

I know, missing the point, I'm sure you'll look awesome and hot in the thermal bandages. Still... Zorg. With that little clear hat and the weird swoop of hair and the creepy fleshy pet with the Bambi eyes. Awesome.

GD doesn't come around much anymore. There was a bit of a shakedown and some of the old AWs were asked to leave. She vanished around the same time as He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named and the impactful one. It happened just before the amateur trolls started invading en masse. I suspect that some of the old pros are still around, under new names,but it's really not the same.

She was over at reddit for a little while, mostly in r/gonewild.If reddit wasn't blocked at work, I'm pretty sure I would still be a liter, and be okay with it.

This thread made me realize I don't belong here anymore. Well, not just this thread, this was the last little push to an exit I've been trying to avoid. I'm stubborn, and I've been shoving all the good times I've had here in 10+ years (lurked for a while before signing up) against the undeniable deterioration I've noticed.

Let me clarify. The links and quality of the headlines are fine by me, but the threads mostly seem to somehow or other degenerate into some combo of the following: troll/troll-feeder/aw/anti-aw/white knight/random shiat-stirrer. It's almost like some folks feel that it's a requisite that a thread turn into a shiatstorm. I've contributed to this, and I don't want to anymore, though I won't hold back here seeing as to how it's my last time.

Maybe it sounds like my favorite band got signed to a major and I don't like them anymore, maybe I sound like an old-timer that has not adjusted to inevitable change. You're right, there is some of that, but I am a studio rat that depends on knowing the musical latest in order to keep getting called to sessions and gigs, and at 48 I know I've turned the corner but still feel good.

To VivianVivisect:If I were still working on my thesis, I would have thrown out all the research I did trying to decipher what made Danny Gatton tick, and retitled it "Obese women in their 20s that suddenly find their spine and become SASSY: from outcast to brosephine". As to your comment that "I'm just a liter", well, that is true but it would be truly disingenuous of you to think I haven't been a TFer at some point. And it wasn't "gifted", like yours. I enjoyed it, it was fun, especially to see the then hotly-contested PS challenges come up on the queue. Right around the "you'll get over it" fiasco, plus random other changes that made the site more of a commercial success, I decided to take that $5 and give it to a more needy charity. Maybe before your next post, you'll give a minute's thought to how you're coming across. Anyway, moving on...

I will fondly remember many, many highlights, some listed here, some not: http://www.shortlist.com/cool-stuff/the-12-most-epic-fark-threads-eve rI will miss less so the excommunication of Foobies, the ever-tightening noose on what was "OK" to post, the threads where pics couldn't be posted at all, the banning of someone just for what they were linking to. But it became a business, what are you going to do? New rules.

I think at various points, most of us that had gone through these growing pains had enough. I sure don't see most of the usual suspects from years ago. In the meantime, a new audience has joined that came along as Fark is right now, and for them it's fine. So, enjoy.

So I join the ranks of those that are no longer here. I've changed my homepage (to http://www.boxer-rescue-la.com/), and I can't remember the last time I did that.

Thank you, Drew, it's been a great ride and I wish you continued success. Be seeing you, everyone.

What am I going to do with all this extra time? I think I'll go outside and play.

foostoe:the threads mostly seem to somehow or other degenerate into some combo of the following: troll/troll-feeder/aw/anti-aw/white knight/random shiat-stirrer. It's almost like some folks feel that it's a requisite that a thread turn into a shiatstorm.

Welcome to the internet?

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I'll never understand why people prefer to complain about the quality of a thread rather than do whatever they think is necessary to improve it.

People who post things like "I came for X, leaving disappointed" and so forth are just boring and lazy. If you came for X and X isn't here, post it your own damned self. The site is best when it's mutually entertaining and everyone participates. If you just sit there and wait for everyone else to entertain you but you don't do anything to entertain others, then you might as well be watching TV.